re: LaTech baseball fans: Question(s) about Goff

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Anecdotal; I was talking long-term actual numbers based on their official budget.
Very low ticket sales across the board, even worse numbers for their royalties, merchandising, etc. No matter which data you anaylise, it will show very low fan support.

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And yet we are in the conference you would smash your left testicle to be in.

Funny how that works.

Yep....no doubt that we should be in a much better conference than you. Believe me, we are very aware of that sad fact.

But none of that changes the facts I've stated about the lack of support of your fan base.

But when you have 26 jucos it boggles the mind how the regular players can be 'slowly' integrated into your program.

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You don't think that's sustainable?

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It is if you hit on all of those JUCOS. The issue is that you're not going to get as much progression out of those guys and you're not really coaching them up as much as a high school player. In other words, you only have them for 2 years so if they come in and struggle, they're basically wasting scholarship money. Whereas if a Freshman struggles, you still have him for another 3 years or you can send him to a JUCO for a year and get him back.


It's a much safer route to supplement your squad with JUCO guys to fill the gaps. I think they definitely are very valuable for baseball. The Cajuns go the JUCO route pretty often but it's usually to get a power bat or to fill a few spots.

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Start with a lot of JUCO and then slowly transition into high school players.

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Yeah I think that's the plan and it's not a bad one especially because La Tech had no talent on that team.

I'm just very skeptical of a guy who comes in and brings in a bunch of junior college guys and has immediate success. Maybe he wants to build a winner or maybe he wants to pad his resume for a year or two and then skip town.

Yes indeed: if nothing else the current financial mess in La it has shed light on all of the athletic budgets in the state. LTU-R is the worst, with lots of money 'shifted' to other areas, and otherwise just plain shenanigans that they have have been doing. That won't last long in this current atmosphere of taxpayer scrutiny....much less with other conferences.

the other way man...outside of LSU (and of course Tulane), Ul-L and LaTech have more damn "private" "off the book" activity that all other state schools not named LSU combined.

Let me upfront....in Louisiana, I believe their should be LSU, UL-L and Louisiana Tech - that is all that is needed....so my opinion my be biased! I don't even think there needs to be a LSU-E or a Tech Barksdale.

UL-L has taken a hit with the oil industry....but there is still plenty of financial support. If a conference shakeup does not force light on Latech's books, the segregation of athletic and academic funds will.....Latech is raking in cash money on the micro technology front...at some point those foundation activities will have to be split and open....more like what LSU does, but on a smaller scale.

Louisiana would be better off with LSU, UL-L and Louisiana Tech....and some institution in NO not named Tulane or Southern.

PS - UK, hire Goff if you can....he seems like he will build a winner....and the facility improvements in Ruston have been solid...oh wait, that is another off the books transaction happening in Ruston....

Just looked this up. He threw 80 pitches in a day game with temps in the mid-70's. On four days rest, he threw 107 with temps in the low 50's.